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  1. JFC folks. Smart is a whining choade and ground the officials to dust. Officials had their thumbs on the scale the entire time. SEC is corrupt. We win this game by 3 scores if the “G” is not on their helmet.
  2. Don’t care. They’ve gotten help all year. Reckoning
  3. Uga 3 penalties 24 yards texas 10-89 thumbs on scale.
  4. Smart is a clown. refs have thumbs on scale corrupt
  5. Smart is a clown. sec refs have thumbs on scale.
  6. This is quite the graphic. Production team must have spent days researching it. 100 years after the war of 1812. 112 years before today. smh
  7. And Starbucks https://starbucks.asu.edu/ And Adidas https://adidas.asu.edu/
  8. Still shaking my head about, "We Guard Against Unnecessary Care." Totally tone deaf. A person's doctor (or the associated PAs or RNs) are the most trusted people in medicine. When one of the most loathed pieces of a system rejects a request from a trusted part of that system, it becomes more loathed. This fool just doubled-down on that. This is a T-shirt opportunity: UHC - We Guard Against Unnecessary Care If UHC has a director of comms or a PR firm, they need to reel in the CEO - or push to have him replaced.
  9. Let's follow the transitive property a little further. It's a circle. Texas > Michigan > tOSU > Nebraska > Colorado > Ok St > Ark > Tenn > Bama > Georgia > Texas And now everyone sucks
  10. So, BB signs on at UNC and gets them through Jan. When the preferred NFL job comes open, he quits and Stephen becomes HC for 2025 season.
  11. Seems like the NYPD has really shitty image inference AI or is intentionally throwing shit out there to see if something sticks. A 30 second visual review of the photos of the guy smiling would say, "that ain't the same guy." And that bike is clearly not a Citi Bike.
  12. Dear Intel Board, Great move pushing out Gelsinger without a plan. Since you announced the change of leadership, Intel has shed roughly 15% of its market cap. Congrats, The Shareholder That aside, part of Intel's winning culture involved eschewing lower margin, industry leading technologies in favor of higher margin domains. Grove's famous pivot from DRAM to CPU is why Intel was what it was in the 80s and 90s. I suspect that's why the SSD technologies, etc. were abandoned. AND, they can have cyclical major downturns. For what it's worth, the 18A node is yielding at 10%. That alone could have pushed Gelsinger out, esp. since there were earlier quotes about it being at 50%-60%. That said, yield is a function of area, custom/stdcell/SRAM, but if he's been claiming 50% to the board and someone has a legitimate report of 10%, he's gone. As @Captainant article notes, CEO BK was an abject disaster. Everything he did was about efficiency, etc. and he gutted/reduced/etc, several strong R/D teams in his time. For example, the entirety of the beginning of MSFT's SOC/silicon team came from Intel (2016). Ampere was started - and largely staffed - by a former Intel exec in 2017. Google, AMD, nVidia, etc. have built (or are building) design centers near key Intel development centers.
  13. Many companies - even mid and smaller ones - are self-insured, to a point. They have a form of super-cat insurance for major issues. When I was at a smaller company a few years back, we'd have folks spending 1/2 a day on the phone fighting through a $400 denied claim and/or looking for an approval. Boss (at the time) and I just asked our benefits coordinator (also HR person) to approve these and we'd eat the cost. For the most part it was small and it kept people focused on what we hired them to do. That said, the culture at places like UHC and others is to make their customers happy about the service and financials. As a result, there is incentive to deny claims and push back. Some folks acquiesce and eat the costs. Insurer then comes back and says, "We billed you $2mm this year for services and your claims were low last year. As a result, your premium for next year will not go up the 10% everyone else is seeing. You'll see a 3% increase." A friend is at a larger company and his daughter had issues in 2023 and 2024 that cost nearly 7 figures. That company had no problems taking care of it. In fact, that company approved his daughter being extended on their health plan beyond age 26, which was astonishing to me. They're footing the bill (or the super-cat limit kicked in).
  14. Maybe don't lose to Georgia Tech or Syracuse. And need to be bailed out by biased officials 2 times. "Them boys" are watching tape and realize that Miami was indeed bailed out by the officials at least twice. CFP folks have Miami as #12, but they get supplanted by the Big12 winner (ha). Sagarin has Miami at #14. Massey composite has them at #13. Ole Miss and SC have a better case, IMO. SEC office had its thumb on the scale for LSU against both of them - until they realized LSU is not very good. Add half a win to Ole Miss and SC That aside, It's better that we are quibbling over the first out at the #12 position than the first out at the #4 position.
  15. The Broyles list is very interesting: Dirk Koetter, OC, Boise - Koetter was HC for Boise from 1998-2000 and was a key part of their surge to relevance over the past 25 years. Al Golden, DC, Notre Dame - HC for Temple 2006-2010 and HC for Miami 2011-2015 Tosh Lupoi, DC, Oregon - Everyone's favorite bagman and hypothetical, "let's get him as DL coach" target. Was on Sark's staff at UW in 2012-2013; averted a show cause... Tom Allen, DC, Penn State - Indiana HC the last time they were relevant (2019-2020), 2019 had DeBoer as OC. 2019-2020 had Penix as QB Tim Beck - the Vandy version. Lots of familiar names - many are retreads.
  16. Runyan's behavior here is worse than Azeez's
  17. Son and I rented Citi Bikes in NYC. Required app, linked to phone, linked to payment, etc. First time use is a PITA. Guy either (1) pushed a person off a bike or (2) bought a burner smartphone, installed apps w/ fake credentials, and procured a 1-day pass for cash. As the guy above notes, the bikes are easily tracked.
  18. Proven in the Big12: DC OC
  19. Of the above list, Helton, Albin, and Monken are most interesting. Huff and Brohm less so. Not sure Odom would want to go there, as I could see him at a higher profile program in his next step. The others? Meh. Hard pass on Mack Brown.
  20. Jesus, that is some top-shelf gallows humor.
  21. Not sure how my comments were either anti-capitalist or a screed. Please elaborate. Re: AI. Around 2015-2016, there were dozens, if not hundreds, of AI startups in the marketplace. Many of them were focusing on specialized domain-specific architectures for accelerating AI workloads. Some focused on inference, some on training, some tried to do both. For most, the software problem was secondary. "We have this great new architecture with peak FLOPs of X." The assumption was that SW developers would flock to the best HW. However, for most of these firms, the SW was indeed the constraint. New models were being developed at breakneck speed; internal SW teams could not keep up, as the "we'll just deploy an army of SW folks to optimize to our HW" mindset failed. On top, nVidia had CUDA. While not perfect, it was low friction. It remains low friction today. Intel had a multi-pronged approach to AI. First, expand the x86 ISA - AVX, AVX512, AMX, etc. To the CPU architect every problem has a CPU/ISA solution - zero thought of adoption in the SW community and the inherent limitations of CPU vs. GPU in peak/effective performance. "If we build it, they will come." Second, Intel acquired several AI firms: Habana, Nervana, Movidius, Mobileye - for around $18B (Mobileye was $15B of that). Each of them - in some way - led the field in performance. For example, Habana had fantastic training performance numbers in MLPerf. Nervana is (more or less gone), Movidius is used in Intel's vision processing units, Mobileye was spun off, and trades at $13.9B. Habana created Gaudi, but the market acceptance has been low. Moreover, most key parts of the Habana team - innovators, developers, etc. - have left Intel. It seemed as though the strategy was "buy all the big names and see how it goes."
  22. Wikipedia summarized my recollection of Stephenson's ATT tenure quite well... During his tenure as CEO, AT&T acquired DirecTV for $49 billion in July 2015 and Time Warner for $85 billion in June 2018. According to Drew FitzGerald of The Wall Street Journal, Stephenson has "transformed the phone company he inherited into one of the world's biggest entertainment companies."[8] However, AT&T also failed acquisition of T-Mobile. On July 1, 2020, Stephenson retired as CEO of AT&T. He was succeeded by then-COO John Stankey.[9] At the time Stephenson announced his departure, it was acknowledged that the acquisitions of DirectTV and Time Warner had by this point resulted in a massive debt burden of $200 billion for the company,[10] forcing the company to cut back on its capital investments.[11] and In December 2020, the Financial Times said Stephenson's "legacy has been stained by poor acquisitions".[12]
  23. I am pretty sure that Purdue NIL is not in the upper half of Big10 teams. However, that is not what Walters said. He said, "I would have taken a deeper dive into where we were from a collective standpoint. When I got the job, they were right around 400 grand." He also stated that he did not know the state of the NIL collective, which I find very strange. I know that Purdue merged its collective with the AD fundraising arm (John Purdue Club - JPC) very early and that it's not clear if JPC has its act together. He inherited a team that had just played (and gotten whipped) in the Big10 championship game. And many of the more interesting players had transferred before he arrived or were leaving for the NFL (4th round WR Charlie Jones, 4th round QB and occasional Raiders starter Aidan O'Connell, 5th round TE, 7th round CB, 7th round OLB). Walters was in over his head from the outset: lots of outgoing players (NFL, transfers), some transfers, did not really understand the NIL situation, brutal schedule (#8 this year - UND, PSU, OSU, Oregon, Indiana), etc. However, this year's team was uncompetitive. The only P4 games they were remotely "in" were Michigan State, Northwestern, and Illinois. They led Nebraska for a few mins in the 3rd quarter, but the 2nd half was uncompetitive. That all said, I agree with the assertion that Purdue will be a perennial bottom dweller w/o an improvement in the NIL space. Purdue has a large alumni base (#10, IIRC). The most rabid support goes to basketball, as you might expect. And, to my knowledge, there is not a high-profile billionaire who is willing to drop 1% of their net worth into sports - or at least no one who is willing to talk about it. While behind many larger schools, alumni are stepping up on the academic side. Commitments are up 51% in the past 4 years. Philanthropic cash is up 71% over the past 4 years. They'll drop $25mm to put their name on a building I am cautiously optimistic, but also pragmatic.
  24. My dad was based in Austin from 1978-1985 in the business/planning domains. I had forgotten about all of the ancillary businesses they had at the time. Templeton's decision to focus was a good idea. 99/4 and 99/4a were fantastic for me to play with. I saved my money to buy a patch cord to allow me to save programs to a cassette tape. A friend's father was a SW developer and was able to procure a floppy drive. The speedup was amazing. And who can forget the Little Professor and Speak and Spell? Non sequitur, somewhat... In the mid-late 80s, UT ECE hired a few industry luminaries into its department. Harvey Cragon left TI to join the UT faculty; he was a fully-tenured, chaired professor with only a bachelor's degree. Cragon worked with Jack Kilby on an early TI computer for the air force, on TI's supercomputer, and later its DSPs. I took several of his classes and kept in touch with him until around 2014. He passed away in 2018.
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